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Born as Johnny Cash was recording the first of his legendary sessions for Sun Records in 1955, Rosanne Cash has made her own unique mark on the music industry with 11 Number 1 country singles and a style informed as much by Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, as by her father. Her musical education started when she joined her father's travelling road show as an 18-year-old and was given a list of his favourite 100 country songs to learn and study as a grounding in Americana folk roots. It led to her working with (and later marrying) songwriter and producer Rodney Crowell for early albums Rosanne Cash (1978) and Right Or Wrong (1980), before her breakthrough record Seven Year Ache (1981) topped the US country charts and produced the singles My Baby Thinks He's A Train and Blue Moon With Heartache. Rhythm & Romance (1985) and King's Record Shop (1987) proved career high points and she won a Grammy Award in 1986 for the track I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me; but her songwriting became darker and more autobiographical on Interiors (1990), on which she tackled the breakdown of her marriage. A natural storyteller who can cross over to pop, rock and folk audiences, Cash was unable to sing for part of the 1990s but returned after seven years with the Grammy nominated Rules Of Travel (2003), which included collaborations with Steve Earle, Sheryl Crow, Jakob Dylan and her father. She went on to appear on records by John Mellencamp, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett and Jeff Bridges, but returned to those songs her father had given her on The List (2009), featuring guest appearances from Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Tweedy and Rufus Wainwright.
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